GETTY PETROLEUM CORP. v. BARTCO PETROLEUM CORP.

Nos. 494-496, Dockets 87-7668, 87-7674 and 87-7770.

858 F.2d 103 (1988)

GETTY PETROLEUM CORP., Plaintiff-Appellee, Cross-Appellant, v. BARTCO PETROLEUM CORP., Nicholas J. Bartolomeo, Miracle Petroleum Corp., Prugig Realty Corp., Anthony Golio, Peter Ciorciari, Lena Petroleum Corp., A.E.N. Trucking, Corp., Patrick O'Reilly, Paddy O's Service Inc., and Daniel J. Feigenbaum, Defendants, Anthony Golio, Bartco Petroleum Corp., and Nicholas J. Bartolomeo, Defendants-Appellants, Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 22, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clifford J. Chu, Great Neck, N.Y. (Hayt, Hayt & Landau, Attys. for defendants Bartco Petroleum Corp., Roy Broudny, P.C., Ralph Pernick, Great Neck, N.Y., of counsel), for defendants-appellants, cross-appellees Bartco Petroleum Corp. and Nicholas J. Bartolomeo.

Lawrence A. Berger, Great Neck, N.Y., for defendants-appellants cross-appellees Anthony Golio and Prugig Realty Corp.

Robert G. Del Gadio, Garden City, N.Y. (Harry R. Dreizen, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee, cross-appellant Getty Petroleum Corp.

Before LUMBARD, CARDAMONE, and PRATT, Circuit Judges.


CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

The purposes underlying the Lanham Trademark Act of 1946 are to protect the public so it may buy a product bearing a particular trademark with confidence that it will get the product it wants and to protect the holder of the mark's investment in time and money from its misappropriation by pirates and cheats. The defendants-appellants on this appeal violated the Lanham Act by infringing the "Getty" trademark "willfully, intentionally and with...

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